Nestlé has pledged to increase efforts to improve the lives of these women, producing what Sandra Martinez, Nestlé’s Senior Vice-President for Global Confectionery, introduced as an “action plan for women in Côte d’Ivoire cocoa communities.”

The plan itself is also downloadable in full here, and follows a publication by the Fair Labor Association assessing women’s roles in the supply chain in cocoa communities.

The action plan covers training sessions on gender issues for all the co-operatives in the country that are part of the Nestlé Cocoa Plan; income-generating initiatives designed to increase women’s income and enable them to pay for their children's education; and the creation of local women’s associations to provide support and assistance.